Textile fragment with interlocking quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
25 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.498
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Catalogue text
A wide band of interlocking quatrefoils or, if the pattern is read differently, of circles with a rosette at the centre of each. The design is a very small version of a pattern that plays with visual ambiguity, such as appears in Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099]. It can be seen as white against a red ground, or as red against a white ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 491 on p. 146 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 146 fig. 491
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